PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Face Perception, Three Steps, Moodle
12 Apr 2015
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Chapter 6: symbols are what set humans apart from other species, symbols: systems for representing our thoughts, feelings and knowledge and for communicating them to other people, include print, language, pictures, models, maps etc. The components of language: all languages have generativity, generativity: through the use of an infinite set of words/morphemes we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas. When learning a new language you have to deal with this complexity: phonemes: elementary units of meaningful sound used to produce languages. Ex: rake and lake differ by only one phoneme but the words have different meanings to english speakers. Different languages have different sets of phonemes. What is required for language: a single human, isolated could never learn a language, need to hear language for development. When genie was found, she was stunted physically, motorically and emotionally.
